This durational course provides exercises and environment to develop better connections to your own body as a tool of creative expression. That means we are going to work on developing ourselves in several directions.

- physical training. Makes body strong, fast, sensitive, expands variety of possible ways it may exist, shapes it may take, emotions it may express. It is a necessary fundament that also teaches you how to be fully involved in a process.

- tasks that force movement creativity. Provide a field for experiments and personal research in terms of individual movement language. It is about how to bring imagination into a body and enhance imagination by using your body. It is about working on movement images and creating characters. It is about embodiment.

- improvisational tasks teach how to use expressive body language freely and be able to respond fast to any kind of dance/movement situations, what to do with time, momentum, space and other bodies.

Person

Evgenia Chetvertkova is a dancer, choreographer and performer. She began to dance in early childhood and got her initial education and stage experience in Troitsk dance ensemble for young people (ballet and folk dances). While studying at the Moscow State University (psychology) she moved towards more contemporary and improvisational forms of dance and theatre. After graduating (2007) she took part in performances of the Derevo Theatre and began her own experiments in dance, physical theatre and visual arts. Being a member and later choreographer of Russian PoemaTheatre dance theatre over 6 years she developed a unique practice and created over 10 choreographic pieces. Since 2017 she lives in Berlin and studies at Solo Dance Authorship master programme in HZT.